Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; Sandgren Massih, Sofia; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013
We estimate the well-known Becker-Tomes (1986) model of intergenerational transmission of human capital. A Swedish data set which links individual measures on educational attainments of four generations, enables us to use great grandparents’ education as an instrumental variable. This approach...